(June 1, 2007) What does a sustainable energy future look like and how do we go about creating it?
Myanmar to sign hydropower pacts with China and Thailand
(May 21, 2007) Myanmar, which is facing an acute power shortage, is set to sign a series of deals with neighboring China and Thailand to build hydropower plants in eastern and southern Myanmar, a newspaper reported Monday.
The Buon Kuop hydropower project: utility performance
(April 1, 2007) The revenue risks and liabilities associated with the Buon Kuop hydropower project in Vietnam’s Daklak province – the first of six hydro projects in Vietnam planned for the Srepok River, shared with Cambodia.
Worldwide protests against Salween dams in Burma
(March 1, 2007) On February 28, 2007, 19 cities worldwide expressed solidarity in opposing the planned Salween Dams.
Villagers want end of Salween dams
(March 1, 2007) Thai and Burmese villagers, backed by activists around the world, on Wednesday appealed to the Thai government to end its collaboration with the Burmese military junta on five hydro-electic dams on the Salween River.
Dam will displace thousands
(March 1, 2007) Karenni and Shan refugees from Burma yesterday urged the Thai government to stop building hydroelectric dams on the Salween River – warning that they would displace another 100,000 people.
The invisible costs of the Salween dam project
(February 28, 2007) The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), has been touting at least five dam projects on the Salween River inside Burma and along the Thailand-Burma border as potentially enormous sources of “cheap” energy.
Dams on Salween threaten indigenous groups
(February 28, 2007) “We still do not know where we will be moved. The officials who came to survey our village and the nearby area did not ask for our views or discuss the plans,” says Nu, whose village has thrived on an economy of rice and vegetable farming for nearly 100 years.
Thai energy company moves ahead on Burma dam projects
(February 22, 2007) Thailand’s giant electricity investor is negotiating with various business alliances to fund and construct multiple hydro-electric dam projects in Burma. Meanwhile, environmentalists are preparing to stage protests against such investments in Bangkok and more than 10 cities worldwide next week.
Probe International’s Compliance Review of Nordic Srepok EIA
(February 22, 2007) An assessment of the Swedish-funded Environmental Impact Assessment on the Cambodian part of Srepok River due to Hydropower Development in Vietnam against Swedish Guidelines for Dams.
Salween Dams Global Day of Action
(February 9, 2007) On February 28, 2007 join activists from around the world.
China gets trade route instead of dams on the Mekong River
(January 29, 2007) A month ago, two small river tankers each carrying about 1,000 barrels of refined oil pulled into a Mekong River port in China’s southwestern Yunnan province after a voyage from Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province.
Northeast villagers to air grievances about Vietnamese dams
(January 14, 2007) Villagers said that more than 60 hectares in Ratanakkiri province, Lumphat and Kon Mom districts alone were destroyed by flood, and hundreds of villagers have abandoned their homes.
Valley of Darkness: Gold Mining and Militarization in Burma’s Hugawng Valley
(January 10, 2007) The remote and environmentally rich Hugawng Valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State has been internationally recognized as one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. The military junta ruling Burma, together with the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society, is establishing the world’s largest tiger reserve in the valley. However, the conditions of the people living there have no received attention.
Valley of Darkness: Gold Mining and Militarization in Burma’s Hugawng Valley
(January 10, 2007) Valley of Darkness reveals the untold story of how the junta’s militarization and self-serving expansion of the gold mining industry have devastated communities and ravaged the valley’s forests and waterways.


